Vanguard Newspapers are insisting that their comments on the N60m commission the Nigeria Football League, NFL, paid to Shehu Diko were fair comments on an issue of serious national interest.
The Presidential Task Force on the World Cup may not know this. The Nigeria Football Federation will not rescind their decision to swim or sink with Shaibu Amodu as head coach of Nigeria's team to the 2010 World Cup.
The Constitution need not set university fees, says teacher David Jasondu, rejecting George Arende's criticism of the draft constitution. "The draft talks about universal primary education, which is from preschool to the secondary level, as defined in international terms, and conforms to conventional practices and Article 19 of the Human Rights Charter. It's unacceptable for an individual to miss ...
American singer India Arie has this wonderful hit titled I am not my hair. In just five words, she captures the sentiments that I have been feeling lately -- what with all these tribal alliances and counter-alliances.
Of late, I've been hearing a lot about land and who is supposed to own/lease/grab what chunk for a certain number of years, which I'm made to understand -- through the Press of course -- is being reduced by centuries.
As the political turf wars continue to grab headlines, a deeply unsettling parallel story is failing to make the news agenda.
It is a sensible expectation that whenever any nation seeks to craft and enact a new constitution, it is also faced with both political and economic decisions.
In this penultimate column for 2009, I would like to reflect on a theme I have discussed for many years and which I consider to be extremely important for Kenyans and other Africans, namely democracy and its link to development.
Marxist Lenin once quipped that "Politics always obediently follows economics".
Tunisia will soon host the Arab chess championship, one of the main inter Arab chess gatherings. The event which will run from December 11 to 29, 2009 in Gammarth North of Tunis will comprise several competitions including a club event, individual men and women's events, a blitz tournament and semi-rapid tournament.
My Heart's in Africa reviews a report by Rev. Kapya Kaoma, an Episcopalian Priest from Zambia, which explains how American evangelists are fueling the current wave of homophobia in African countries such as Uganda:
Politics in Senegal under President Abdoulaye Wade has always been something of a passionate wrestling of rancid tales and counter-tales. The ruling party - the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) - has the habit of accusing the opposition of sabotaging the 'established' democracy of the country that sent its own list of grievances to the 1789 French revolution. The opposition in its turn points to ...
Allow me to depart from the traditional form of address common to opening ceremonies, so that I can engage in a personal and candid conversation with you, fellow Africans in civil society, about the state of children in Africa and our collective failures to meet our responsibilities. By dint of geography, race and history we share a common fate and a common destiny. There is no place for hiding or ...
The background and consequences of the recent violent destruction of the Kennedy Road organisation of the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) movement of shack dwellers by a combination of gangs recruited for the purpose, police action and local and regional ANC structures needs to be analysed at some depth.
President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma, employing the powers vested in him as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, recently issued an executive order authorising a joint contingent of military and police forces to patrol the streets of Freetown and the major provincial towns to fight a brazen upsurge in armed robberies in the capital city.
Over the next two weeks, the world's attention will be focused on Copenhagen, where delegates from 192 countries are meeting to discuss a climate deal. This meeting comes at a time when there is a misconception that is running riot saying the Kyoto Protocol (KP) is expiring in 2012, hence the need to negotiate a new agreement. Nothing could be further from the truth. Whatever spin is put on the ...
Negotiations to resolve outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement are still far from over, amid reports the three principals will next week announce what has been agreed to so far.
Botswana's government has poured cold water on claims from ZANU PF that it is hosting so-called 'pirate radio' stations from its territory. Presidential spokesman Dr Jeff Ramsey issued a statement noting 'the re-appearance of allegations in a section of the Zimbabwe media' but said Botswana did not 'harbour any such radio stations.'
ZANU PF has moved with speed to bar journalists from the independent media from covering their congress, which is fast degenerating into a fiasco following an open rebellion against Robert Mugabe.
IF ever you hear that a country is advertising to hire a coach, it must be Nigeria. If the list turns out as long as what the Nigeria Football Association, NFA, presents, the implication is that the there is no serious effort to hire anyone.
On behalf of His Majesty, the King of England, the area presently known as Port Harcourt was acquired by the colonial authorities. This deed is registered as 16/211/7 (old series), Calabar, former kept at the lands registry, Lagos, later lands registry, Enugu but now in the lands registry, Port Harcourt.
A simple definition of 'offer' is the one made by Prof. Itse Sagay in his well known book, Nigerian Law of Contract which makes an offer 'a definite undertaking or promise made by one party with the intention that it shall become binding on the party making it as soon as it is accepted by the party to whom it is addressed'.
IT is no longer news that the Yar'Adua government can now beat its chest and claim to have chalked up some sort of achievement in an otherwise barren and arid tenure.
Efforts to carry out law reforms in the area of domestic violence and violence against women generally have been fruitless, especially at the national level.
Sylvia Owori started her fashion business in Uganda in 1999. This being 2009, she's celebrating 10 years in the business. She celebrated by staging a fashion show at Serena Conference Centre, Victoria Ballroom on Sunday, December 6. One conclusion I drew from this is that TV gives such false impressions.
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